ISS STATUS 15 AUGUST 2005

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468
Station Crew to do Aug. 18 Spacewalk
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John
Phillips will go outside the International Space Station this Thursday
on a spacewalk to remove, replace and photograph experiments and
relocate equipment.
Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips Image to right: Expedition 11
Commander Sergei Krikalev (left) and Flight Engineer John Phillips in
the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. Credit:
NASA(picture not shown)
Krikalev, designated EV1, will be making his eighth spacewalk. This is
Phillips' first spacewalk.
Wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits, both with red stripes, the two are
scheduled to open the hatch of the Pirs docking compartment airlock at
2:55 p.m. EDT (1855 UTC) to begin the six-hour spacewalk.
The first task is to remove a Russian Biorisk experiment container
housing bacteria from the outside of Pirs.
Next they will remove an MPAC and SEED panel from the large-diameter aft
section of the Zvezda Service Module. MPAC is a micrometeoroid and
orbital debris collector. SEED is a materials exposure array.
Crewmembers then will move to the Matroska experiment, a torso-like
container with radiation dosimeters in human-tissue-equivalent material.
They will remove it and later, with the MPAC and SEED panel, bring it
back inside the Station.
Krikalev and Phillips will install a television camera on Zvezda, then
photograph and check a Korma contamination exposure experiment tablet on
a handrail. Once that is complete, they will remove an SKK materials
exposure experiment container and replace it with a similar unit.
Their final task is to remove from the Zarya module a grapple fixture
for a Strela crane and relocate it on Pressurized Mating Adaptor No. 3,
attached to the Station's Unity node.
Krikalev and Phillips will return to Pirs to wrap up their spacewalk at
about 8:55 p.m.(0055 UTC)
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